A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Director: Toni Kalem
Stars: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, Irma P. Hall.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162662/
Watched online, ok print.
11 songs in the Soundtracks.
I wish I knew how to screen out the junk. The IMDb rating was no help here.
The young woman's "obsession" culminates in her cutting the name of the rocker into her forehead, backward of course (mirror image).
The rocker visits her in the hospital, and they stay in contact while she heals. She suggests she come to his gig and they put a spotlight on her for publicity. He's creeped out by the idea, but his manager likes it.
The start dating, he goes out of town for a gig. She starts wearing bangs. When he comes back he proposes. They marry. She's shy (but not a virgin, so she says.)
He has a bad relationship with his parents (or is that his mother's bf). Her father is frail and distressed that she got married.
They stage a "fan" kidnapping for publicity (unbeknownst to the rocker). While he's being held, her father dies, so she's not at home when rocker breaks out and returns. A groupie spends the night.
Wife comes home and packs up to move into her father's house. Hubby won't come along and goes on the road.
Wife hears hubby on the radio with a new song which he dedicates to her.
She sells the house and moves away with hubby. The End.
It was awful.
Rated 6.2 (978)
indie, dir. Kalem; 5
